Jimmy Carter Was Right About Materialism but, Alas, Wrong About Us “Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech. If only we had listened.

“Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.”

📢 New in @EUP_TheJournal, 25(4)

❓ Under what conditions do MEPs ask different types of oversight questions?

👥 @adinaakbik.bsky.social and @martami.bsky.social analyse a new dataset from the 8th parliamentary term to answer this question.

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #OA 📖

This is a really excellent paper from Italy that shows that austerity fuels far right support. Part of the nostalgia for the past that the populists drew on is a nostalgia for a visible and effective public service. 1/

Interview – Marta Migliorati Martia Migliorati explores shifts in Nordic security and defense policy, the implications of the Ukraine war, and the politicisation of the EU's trade arrangements.

www.e-ir.info/2024/12/01/i...

E-International relations asked me to share my thoughts on several topics I research and teach about, this is the result. 😊

Looks like Germany is heading towards a CDU-led grand coalition again. Best outcome, for sure (eg. for Europe and Germany). But it will probably also mean more support for AfD and BSW in the medium term.

While the US vetoed a ceasefire in Gaza, and people keep dying

🚨🚨 Inspired by fellow EU nerds, I did a first attempt in creating a starter pack on European law and politics (defined in a broad sense) collecting some of the people I really think you should follow in this area. More names will be added but a bit exhausted by this work.
go.bsky.app/E5ByTCJ

A growing starter pack #eusky

🚨Under what conditions do members of parliaments ask different types of oversight questions? 🚨

I answer this question in a new article published in European Union Politics co-authored with the wonderful @martami.bsky.social

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rewrote Nordic defence policies In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership, while Denmark ended its opt out from the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Drawing o…

Nice seeing my blog post on Nordic Countries, NATO and CSDP published on the LSE website!

New Nordic pathways? Explaining Nordic countries’ defence policy choices in the wake of the Ukrainian war In May 2022 Finland and Sweden took the historical decision to apply for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). One month later, after a three-decade long opt-out, Denmark vot...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Glad to see my article on Nordic security and defence policies and evolving relations with NATO and CSDP published open access on @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Treating people as less than human The recent ruling by the European Court for Human Rights vindicates the argument that Malta’s migrant detention policy violates human rights

On Malta, migrants and human rights

Gaza’s children fight to survive amid wreckage of Israel-Hamas war Besieged enclave has become a ‘graveyard’ for the young Palestinians who make up almost half its population

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